leaven

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɛv.ən/
  Play
• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈlɛvn̩]
  Play
• California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈlev.ən/
  Play
• Australian, New-Zealand: [ˈlevn̩]
  Play
• rhymes with -ɛvən
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: L EH1 V AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1lengwh- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h1lénghusder. ▲ Proto-Italic *breɣwisinflu.? Proto-Italic *leɣwis Latin levis Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin levō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Vulgar Latin *levāmender. Old French levainbor. Middle English levayn English leaven From Middle English levayn, borrowed from Old French levain, from Vulgar Latin *levāmen, a noun based on Latin levō (“raise”).

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَمِيرَة (ḵamīra) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Armenian: թթխմոր (tʻtʻxmor) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Azerbaijani: maya — any agent used to make dough rise
• Bulgarian: набухвател (nabuhvatel) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Catalan: llevat — any agent used to make dough rise
• Chinese Mandarin: 酵母 (jiàomǔ) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵肥 /面肥 (miànféi) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Cornish: gwel — any agent used to make dough rise
• Czech: kvásek — any agent used to make dough rise
• Dutch: rijsmiddel — any agent used to make dough rise
• Esperanto: fermentilo — any agent used to make dough rise
• Finnish: nostatusaine — any agent used to make dough rise
• French: levain — any agent used to make dough rise
• French: ferment — any agent used to make dough rise
• Friulian: levan — any agent used to make dough rise
• Galician: lévedo — any agent used to make dough rise
• Galician: fermento — any agent used to make dough rise
• Galician: isco — any agent used to make dough rise
• Georgian: საფუარი (sapuari) — any agent used to make dough rise
• German: Treibmittel — any agent used to make dough rise
• German: Triebmittel — any agent used to make dough rise
• German: Ferment — any agent used to make dough rise
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍃𐍄 (beist) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Ancient Greek: ζύμη (zúmē) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Gurani: ئامیان (āmyān) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Hebrew: שאור (s'or) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Hungarian: kovász — any agent used to make dough rise
• Hungarian: élesztő — any agent used to make dough rise
• Ido: hefo — any agent used to make dough rise
• Irish: gabháil — any agent used to make dough rise
• Italian: lievito — any agent used to make dough rise
• Japanese: パン種 (pan-dane) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Japanese: 膨張剤 (bōchōzai) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Central Kurdish: ھەوێن (hewên) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Northern Kurdish: havên — any agent used to make dough rise
• Latvian: rauga — any agent used to make dough rise
• Lithuanian: raugas — any agent used to make dough rise
• Malay: bahan penaik — any agent used to make dough rise
• Manx: jastee — any agent used to make dough rise
• Manx: jiastyn — any agent used to make dough rise
• Manx: soorid — any agent used to make dough rise
• Māori: rēwena — any agent used to make dough rise
• Middle English: sour dogh — any agent used to make dough rise
• Middle English: levayn — any agent used to make dough rise
• Classical Nahuatl: xocotextli — any agent used to make dough rise
• Norwegian: hevingsmiddel — any agent used to make dough rise
• Occitan: levam — any agent used to make dough rise
• Old Church Slavonic: квасъ (kvasŭ) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Persian: مایه (mâye) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Persian: برازده (barāzde) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Polish: zakwas — any agent used to make dough rise
• Polish: zaczyn — any agent used to make dough rise
• Polish: drożdże — any agent used to make dough rise
• Portuguese: fermento — any agent used to make dough rise
• Portuguese: levedura — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romanian: plămădeală — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romanian: maia — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romanian: covoseală — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romanian: plămadă — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romansh: levon — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romansh: levànt — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romansh: lavamaint — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romansh: tschadamaint — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romansh: alvo — any agent used to make dough rise
• Romansh: alvamaint — any agent used to make dough rise
• Russian: заква́ска (zakváska) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Russian: разрыхли́тель (razryxlítelʹ) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Sicilian: criscenti — any agent used to make dough rise
• Spanish: levadura — any agent used to make dough rise
• Spanish: polvos de hornear — any agent used to make dough rise
• Swahili: chachu — any agent used to make dough rise
• Swahili: hamira — any agent used to make dough rise
• Tagalog: lebadura — any agent used to make dough rise
• Turkish: maya — any agent used to make dough rise
• Ottoman Turkish: مایه (maya) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Ottoman Turkish: خامور (hamur) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Venetan: levà — any agent used to make dough rise
• Walloon: lewin — any agent used to make dough rise
• Welsh: surdoes — any agent used to make dough rise
• Welsh: eples — any agent used to make dough rise
• Welsh: lefain — any agent used to make dough rise
• Zazaki: ameyn — any agent used to make dough rise
• Zazaki: amên (diq) — any agent used to make dough rise
• Zazaki: amîn — any agent used to make dough rise
• Finnish: nostattaa — to add leavening
• Ido: hefizar — to add leavening
• Italian: lievitare — to add leavening
• Romanian: plămădi — to add leavening
• Spanish: leudar — to add leavening
• Chinese Mandarin: 膨鬆 /膨松 (péngsōng) — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Finnish: nostattaa — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Finnish: kohottaa — to cause to rise by fermentation
• French: faire lever — to cause to rise by fermentation
• French: faire fermenter — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Galician: levedar — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Hawaiian: hū — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Hebrew: הֶחְמִיץ (heẖmítz) — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Hungarian: keleszt — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Hungarian: megkeleszt — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Hungarian: erjeszt — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Italian: lievitare — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Māori: rēwena — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Norwegian: heve — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Persian: وراوردن (varâvardan) — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Spanish: leudar — to cause to rise by fermentation
• Tahitian: hōpue — to cause to rise by fermentation